📜 Signed the open letter to the Wikimedia Foundation urging it not to dox editors who have annoyed an Indian news publisher.1
🗄️ Bought an additional hard drive to add to my DIY NAS and ArchiveBox setup at home.
💸 Asked the Internet Archive to double my monthly donation.
💸 Activated a paid subscription for Sourcehut git hosting (I’ve been freeloading for months but they haven’t been nagging me as they’re still in alpha).
🌏 Read a lot of thoughts from IndieWeb-adjacent bloggers, including Baldur Bjarnason on the other side of the world:
It’s a fact of life that those of us living in a satrapy or principality of the US empire have to suffer many of the consequences of US politics without having any say in them.
But, even beyond that, anybody working in tech is directly affected by the changing winds of politics as complete deregulation is first plank in the tech industry’s two-plank strategy for postponing its inevitable decline.
It’s all I can do to not feel helpless.
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Yes, I decided in 2001 that I would use my real name as my Wikipedia/Wikimedia username, knowing that I might later regret this decision. Half my lifetime later, I still don’t regret this and it’s far too late to erase my identity, but I do recognise that it’s become more risky. ↩︎